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KYPRIANOS M675

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Louvre AF 12530
C. Pharm. Copt. 31

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Medical (recipes)
Contents:

1. Ro ll.1-4: Recipe for healing eye or skin problem (?).
2. Ro ll.5-7: Recipe for healing eye or skin problem (?).
3. Ro ll.8-10: Recipe for healing eye or skin problem (?).
4. Ro ll.11-14: Recipe for healing eye or skin problem (?)
5. Ro ll.15-19: Recipe for healing eye or skin problem (?)
6. Ro ll.20-24: Recipe for healing eye or skin problem (?)
7. Ro ll.8-10: Recipe for healing eye or skin problem (?)
8. Ro ll.31-35: Recipe for healing eye or skin problem (?)
9. Ro ll.36-38: Recipe for healing eye or skin problem (?)
10. Ro ll.39-43: Recipe for healing eye or skin problem (?)
11. Ro ll.44-57: Recipe for healing wind (têu) and stinging (čwke)
12. Ro ll.58-65: “Hot (hm) prescription” (healing recipe)?
13. Ro ll.66-68: Recipe for healing air (aêr)
14. Ro ll.69-76: Recipe for healing (unclear disease)
15. Ro ll.77-78: Recipe for healing myopia (? alhasour)
16. Ro ll.79-87: Recipe for healing air (aêr) and every disease
17. Ro ll.88-95, Vo ll.92-99: Recipe for healing skin condition (?)
18. Vo ll.1-9: A black plaster (healing prescription)
19. Vo ll.10-21: Recipe for healing leukoma (eye disease)
20. Vo ll.22-32: Recipe for healing darkness (kmêmme) and star (siou) (eye diseases)
21. Vo ll.33-42: Recipe for healing scratched eye (? hôke n-bal)
22. Vo ll.43-58: Recipe for healing itch (? hahs) in the eye
23. Vo ll.59-67: Another (recipe for healing itchy eye?)
24. Vo ll.1-9: Recipe for healing air (aêr) (eye disease?)
25. Vo ll.80-81: Recipe for healing leukoma (eye disease)
26. Vo ll.80-81: Another (recipe for healing leukoma/eye disease ?)
27. Vo ll.82-91: Recipe for healing itch (? hahs) in the eye
See all texts in this manuscript.

Language(s):

Egyptian (Coptic)
Script(s):

Coptic
Dialect:

Sahidic
Language/dialect notes:

Numerous Arabic loanwords
Date: question mark icon Dates are CE unless preceded by a minus sign <->, in which case they are BCE. 801 – 950
Date notes:

Grons 2025: p. 359; 801-1000 (Richter 2015: p. 167).
Archive/collection: question mark icon Larger collection to which manuscript belongs. KYP A33
Archive name: Bodleian Alchemico-Medical Group
State of edition:

Published.
Image: https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010042383

Form:

Rotulus
Material:

Papyrus
Dimensions (cm): Height: 90 Width: 9 Depth:
Dimensions (notes):

Richter 2015: p. 165.
Folding pattern:
State of preservation:

Complete.
Pages/Columns: question mark icon Total surviving columns in the manuscript for rolls, sheets and rotuli; total number of pages for codices.

2
Pages/Columns (notes):

1 column recto with 95 lines (↓), 1 column verso with 91 lines (→).
Hand:

3 different hands.

Findspot:

Lepidoton Polis (Nag’ el-Mashayikh), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 3095)
Place of purchase: (TM places ID: )
Writingspot:

Lepidoton Polis (Nag’ el-Mashayikh), Egypt (?)

(TM places ID: 3095)
Present Location:

Paris, Louvre
Collection History:

Acquisition history unknown (Richter 2014: p. 167-168).
Trismegistos collection: question mark icon Page on the database Trismegistos collections for the institution which currently houses the manuscript. 274
Collection website: http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=28031&langue=fr

Notes/Discussion:

Bibiliography
Editions:

★ Grons, Anne. Medizinische Rezepttexte in koptischer Sprache (C.Pharm.Copt.). Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete – Beiheft 56. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2025, p. 359-380, no. 31.

Richter, Tonio Sebastian. “Neue koptische medizinische Rezepte.” Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 141.2 (2014): 154-194, p. 164-183, no. 3.
Translations:
General:

Trismegistos ID:

383715

 		PAThs:
PGM: question mark icon Papyri Gracae Magicae SM: question mark icon Supplementum Magicum GEMF: question mark icon Greek and Egyptian Magical Formularies (forthcoming) ACM: question mark icon Ancient Christian Magic
Bélanger Sarrazin: question mark icon Bélanger-Sarrazin. “Catalogue des textes magiques coptes” AKZ: question mark icon Ausgewählte koptische Zaubertexte CBd: question mark icon Campbell-Bonner Magical Gems Database Mert.-Pack: question mark icon Mertens-Pack online database
Van H: question mark icon van Haelst, Catalogue des papyrus littéraires Bruyn-Dijkstra: question mark icon de Bruyn and Dijkstra, “Greek Amulets and Formularies (Checklist)" TheDefix: question mark icon Thesaurus Defixionum To Zodion:
Edit History:

KD (8/11/2018); MPS (2/10/2019); MPS (16/9/2022)

How to cite:
[Editor names]. "KYP M675," Kyprianos Database of Ancient Ritual Texts and Objects, Korshi Dosoo, Markéta Preininger, & Roxanne Bélanger Sarrazin (principal editors), www.coptic-magic.phil.uni-wuerzburg.de/index.php/manuscript/kyp-m675. Accessed on 27/10/2026
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